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Now we truly know the Western-dominated world order has ended. But you won’t be able to blame Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping for it. I am sure they are happy to see it gone and may even fancy themselves at having a hand in it. Well, maybe a little bit. But they can’t do it if the West hasn’t committed the most extreme moral self harm, and ignore those very things that keep it alive, that is, as they say, things like Western-inspired universal values such as human rights, international law, and the law of war when it comes to Israel.

The most extraordinary censorship is being exercised across many Western countries, but especially in the United States and Germany, to silence anyone who tries to speak out what everyone already knows is going on in Palestine. It is no accident that the two countries that make the most of the Holocaust as universal civic education are the two countries that most actively enable a real-time genocide being committed and shown live on our computer screens and social media pages.

Silencing the victims’ cries so the killers can continue with the butchery, and criticism is considered racial hate speech against the killers and their apologists. Who does that?

The West cares more about the feelings of the butchers than the lives and limbs of victims. Western “civilisation” now sounds like a contradiction in terms.

Dostoevsky’s Ivan Karamazov asked whether you would let a single child suffer the most horrible torture and death so that the whole of humanity will be free of suffering forever more.

What a naive idealist Ivan was! The real question is how many children we will allow to die the most painful and horrific death before the people who claim to be enlightened and free will collectively speak out and say – “Enough is enough! Enough blood!”

Those were the words of the late Yitzhak Rabin at the signing of the Oslo Agreement.

Having surveyed the whole of history up to his time, Arnold Toynbee concluded that great civilisations died by suicide, rather than murder.

The West has just proved his point. It will of course always exist as a geographic reference. But it’s just places on the map now, not an inspiring idea.

As an ideal, it has died by its own hand with the horrifying screams and dying breaths of tens of thousands of children in Gaza.